A joint organizing committee of Stanford University and UC Berkeley faculty announces the Third Annual Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on Premodern Chinese Humanities, to be held on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5, 2016, at Stanford. This national meeting of graduate students specializing in premodern Chinese studies aims to bring together young scholars from geographically distant institutions to present and discuss innovative research on China.

The conference will feature up to sixteen student presentations of original research on any aspect of premodern (technically, beginnings to 1911) Chinese humanistic culture, drawing on but not limited to the traditional disciplines of history, literature, religion, art, social sciences, and thought. We encourage proposals that explore new methodologies, utilize recent developments in digital technology, or reconfigure cross-disciplinary boundaries.

The conference will cover lodging expenses for the conference presenters, who are encouraged to seek the coverage of transportation costs from their home institutions or other sources. Confirmed presenters who demonstrate that no such funding is available may apply for a travel subsidy. Other interested students, at Stanford, Berkeley and beyond, are encouraged to attend. Conference registration is free.

Papers will be selected by a joint faculty-student committee of China specialists at the two institutions. Local faculty will serve as discussants for the selected papers. Applicants are strongly encouraged to present papers associated with ongoing or projected dissertation research.

25th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia

Columbia University
New York, NY
26-27 February 2016

[from MCLC, 10/26/15]

Graduate students (and qualified undergraduates) are invited to submit abstracts for the 25th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia. This two-day conference—the oldest of its kind in the nation—provides students from institutions around the world with the chance to meet and share research with their peers. In addition, participants will gain valuable experience presenting their work through discussion with fellow graduate students as well as Columbia faculty.

We welcome applications from students engaged in research on all fields in East Asian Studies, including but not limited to: history, literature, art history, religion, sociology, archaeology, law, environmental studies, media studies, anthropology, political science, and economics. We especially encourage work that crosses national, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries to critically rethink the categories that both bind and sub-divide area studies.

Participants can take part in the conference as presenters or discussants. Presenters deliver a talk no longer than 15 minutes that summarizes research in progress. Discussants introduce the panelists, offer feedback, and facilitate the 20-minute discussion session following the presentations. Please indicate on your application which role(s) you are applying for.

Presentations may take three possible forms: a standard academic research paper, a Powerpoint presentation accompanied by a talk, or a work of documentary filmmaking. A documentary work should be 15 minutes or less, but if a student wishes to showcase a longer film, an entire panel slot will be devoted to it.

Finally, this year's committee encourages applications from pre-arranged panels of three to four presenters organized around a specific research topic, such as a region, discipline or theme. If you are applying as a pre-formed panel, please make sure to include a topic or tentative title for your panel on the application form. Preference will be given to such applications.

APPLICATIONS (due November 30th, 2015): Please fill out the application on http://ealac.columbia.edu/graduate/gradcon/ with the required information. PLEASE NOTE: We will not accept presenter applications without abstracts. Successful applicants will be notified of acceptance early in January. Final Papers (5-7 pages maximum) are due January 16th, 2016.

*Please indicate any audiovisual equipment you will need for your presentation. Please note that our A/V resources are quite limited, and we may not be able to satisfy everyone's needs. Presenters must bring their own laptops and VGA adapters for computer presentations.

*Since presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, full-length research papers or theses will not be accepted. Presentations in any other format will also be restricted to 15 minutes. (Unless a full-length work of documentary film is submitted, in which an exception can be made.)

*Applicants who have not submitted final papers or projects will not be permitted to participate in the conference.

Housing will be available on a very limited basis, but we encourage everyone to arrange their own accommodations in advance. The conference runs from Friday afternoon to late Saturday evening. Travel and lodging information will be available soon on the conference website.

Critical Asian Humanities graduate student conference

in conjunction with the second annual
Critical Asian Humanities workshop
Duke University
Durham, NC
8 April 2016

[from MCLC, 10/6/15]

Duke University will host a select graduate student conference in conjunction with its second annual Critical Asian Humanities workshop, which will run from April 8th to April 9th, 2016. Integrating approaches and methodologies from cultural studies, critical theory, and area studies, Critical Asian Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that emphasizes humanistic inquiry while critically interrogating many of the assumptions on which the humanities have traditionally relied. The workshop's keynote speakers will be:

The graduate student conference component of the workshop will feature papers by 4-6 graduate students, to be selected by a panel of Duke faculty and grad. students. Duke will cover the domestic travel and 3 days of room/board for the graduate students who are invited to speak.

Although the workshop does not have a formal theme, preference will be given to graduate student papers that complement the keynote speakers' focus on transregionalism and transnationalism. Students working on Asia in any discipline in the humanities or interpretive social sciences are welcome to apply.

Please send a 500-word abstract and brief biographical blurb to Carlos Rojas by December 1, 2015.

"Creating Markets, Collecting Art"

To commemorate the anniversary of the foundation of Christie's auction house in 1766, a two-day conference will be held at Christie's King Street, St James's. Organised by Christie's Education, the theme of "Creating Markets and Collecting Art" has been chosen to reflect a progressive, collaborative and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of works of art. The conference is designed to explore the interrelationship between commerce, collecting and the idea of the "academy," and how this has evolved over time.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Craig Clunas, University of Oxford, and Inge Reist, Director of the Frick Collection's Center for the History of Collecting.

The conference comprises a mixture of academic sessions and panel discussions. Panel discussions will include a keynote panel, "Collecting for the Nation/Collecting for the Self," while others will focus on "The Future of the Art Market" and "Collecting, Curating and Exhibiting African Art." In addition to the panels, there will be twelve sessions running across three sites. The sessions will explore the idea of collecting--historically, theoretically and in a contemporary context.

We are now calling for papers for the sessions. Papers should be 20-25 minutes in length and there will be 3-4 in each 2 hour session, with time for discussion. Proposals should be accompanied by a brief biography and the whole submission not more than 250 words. Full details of sessions and convenors can be downloaded here [panels of possible interest to historians of Chinese art listed below].

Christie's and the Birth of the European Art Market
Session Convenor: Filip Vermeylen (Erasmus University)
The basic structure of today's global art market has its roots in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries with the establishment of auction houses and art
dealerships. These are fascinating times when the art markets of Europe were
becoming inter-connected and the cross-border trade in works of art was
expanding rapidly. Christie's in London was a prime mover of these
developments, as the company fast rose to primacy after its inception in 1766.
This session aims to explore how Christie's pioneering business practices
were instrumental in shaping the London art market, and how the company
was able to secure the sale of the most prominent art collections of the period.
The session thereby addresses one of the seminal themes of the conference
by examining how intermediaries in the art ecosystems may have shaped
national tastes in the visual arts in the early years of Christie's, and how this
relates to the business models of the major auction houses in the
contemporary art market. In addition, the internationalization of the art trade
invites interesting comparisons with today's emerging art markets.

The Salesroom as Social-Cultural Space
Session Convenor: Anne Helmreich (Texas Christian University)
The commercial art gallery and auction house, arguably the most visible
component of the modern art market, developed ostensibly as a means of
facilitating fiscal transactions, bringing together sellers, buyers, and objects.
But it is impossible, this session argues, to regard these spaces as purely
transactional because they also functioned as spaces of social-cultural
formation and exchange. Indeed, some of the earliest visual representations of Western European
salesrooms focus on the sociability of these spaces, which functioned as sites
of display for both objects and people. Such images register the gradual
expansion of the art market to serve a broader range of social classes, but
such processes were neither smooth nor uncontested. Such questions concerning the intended audience(s) of the salesroom are
underscored by the history of the built environment of the commercial art
gallery and auction house. The histories of locales and physical contexts, both
exterior and interior, reveal the changing status of these spaces.
The formation of these spaces and the strategies of display deployed therein
cannot be separated from the objects circulating through these spaces. What
was the dynamic interaction between objects and spaces, as well as the
dynamic interaction between objects and people facilitated by such spaces?
This structural triad of objects, people, and space was mediated and activated
by speech acts and texts, such as catalogues. These materials compose the
epistemological origins or building blocks of art history. Therefore,
understanding the salesroom as a social-cultural space shapes our histories
of not only the art market but also the discipline of art history. This session
seeks innovative papers that study the salesroom as a social-cultural space,
establishing arguments on rigorously analyzed evidence and carefully
considered methodological frameworks, eschewing an anecdotal approach.

Home Subjects: The Art Market and the Domestic Sphere in Britain
Session Convenors: Anne Nellis Richter (American University) and Morna O'Neill (Wake Forest University)
The commonly-held assumption that the English style of living is intertwined
with tastes in collecting and patronage can be traced back centuries. In the
1790s, for example, when important Italian paintings were being imported into
Britain during the French Revolution, the idea that such pictures might be
unsuitable for English collectors and houses gained a certain currency. One
critic wrote, "A most puerile objection is… made against the pictures of Paul
Veronese, because…they cannot be admitted into our London houses." The
decoration of the private home has become the focus of a tremendous
amount of academic energy during the past five years. What is missing from
these accounts, however, is a consideration of the vital role that the art market
played in enabling the decoration of interiors at all social ranks. This session
seeks to reconsider the relationship between the art market and the domestic
sphere in the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. We welcome
proposals that explore the complicated set of expectations governing the
acquisition and sale of artworks intended for private display, including but not
limited to the role of the art dealer as interior decorator, the auction "house"
and the domestic ideal, and the relationship between private and public
modes of display and decoration, plotting a new trajectory for modernity
traced through the private, domestic sphere.

"Nothing like the real thing!" Connoisseurship; Dead or Alive in the
Digital Age?
Session Convenor: Elizabeth Herridge (arts and arts management
consultant)
Once a vital component as a determinant of value, has the practice of
connoisseurship in the art and auction market been subsumed by technology
and diminished through easy access to electronic images of artworks? Or are
we perhaps witnessing the development of a new methodology, a new kind of
connoisseurship for the digital age? This session will explore issues related to
the changing definition, value and practice of connoisseurship from the
eighteenth century to the present day and its impact on the art and auction
market. We will explore whether its definition has changed over time, as well
as its function in determining authenticity and value. The role of technology in
terms of the accessibility of visual media platforms and their use by collectors
and professionals in the art world will be examined in this context. We will
explore the experience produced through the use of electronic platforms and
the judgments that they might facilitate in the viewer. Fundamentally, we will
consider whether a new kind of methodology or approach to Connoisseurship
is developing through the use of these platforms. The larger question of
whether it is still necessary to look at art in person or if an electronic image is
an acceptable substitute will be discussed. Finally, if we believe the premise
that there is "nothing like the real thing," and that art must be viewed in person
and not through the lens of technology, then what is its value in the art and
auction market in the digital age?

Priceless: The Value of the Invaluable
Session Convenors: Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Helleke van den Braber (Radboud University Nijmegen)
"Priceless is the invaluable, the object that is beyond any price. Priceless is,
paradoxically, also the very costly object, which more than any other object is
defined by its price. In a sense, therefore, the priceless or the invaluable
seems to equal the pricy or the valuable." Ever since Pierre Bourdieu's seminal analysis of the "field of cultural
production," the denial of art's commercial dimension that lies at the heart of
the cultural field's auto-rhetoric has been explored by many scholars of the art
market. Their studies have demonstrated that the notion of pricelessness, i.e.,
the (alleged) impossibility to translate a work of art's artistic merits to
commercial value, is central to the paradox of many market strategies and,
perhaps, even to the market itself. Indeed the construction, by the art market's
various agents, of the artistic sphere as autonomous and beyond economic
value, whence commerce is radically banished, typically results in precisely
the opposite: the creation of commercial value. Yet the strategies to create
commercial value by means of its denial are many and diverse: different
actors (artists, dealers and other middlemen, curators, auctioneers, collectors,
critics) engage in the discourse of "the valuable invaluable" in many different
ways and media (journals, newspapers, catalogues, other publications, ego
documents, personal exchanges, exhibition displays, social rituals, the artistic
object itself) and in many different temporal and geographical contexts. Other
strategies and contexts are at odds with the logic of "the valuable invaluable,"
thus clearly showing that this logic is a cultural construction which is both
time- and site-specific. This session aims to bring together case studies from
a wide array of different temporal, geographical and artistic contexts, in order
to explore the myriad ways in which the notion of the invaluable has been,
and is, construed and translated to commercial value, as well as case studies
of alternative or subdominant discourses and strategies that run counter to
this (il)logic.

Collectors of Contemporary Art: Tastemakers or Market Makers?
Session Convenor: Véronique Chagnon-Burke (Christie's Education)
Every summer for the last 24 years, ArtNews has published the ranking of the
top two hundred collectors; a quick glance at the list reveals that a large
number of these collectors are focusing either on modern and contemporary
art or increasingly solely on contemporary art. If we understand the art world
as a microcosm or a network of dependencies between a set of players who
range from artists and critics to art dealers, collectors, curators, museum
directors, auction houses and art historians; is it right to propose that at this
particular moment in time, collectors are the authoritative voice in defining
contemporary art? For the sake of the discussion, we have chosen to
understand contemporary art as a loose category represented by artists from
the end of the 20th century such as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat
as well as by living artists. The goal of the session is to provide insights on the role played by
contemporary art collectors in the global art world and to assess if they are
indeed the main taste and market makers. It hopes to contribute to renewed
academic interest in collectors that institutions like the Frick Collection Center
for the History of Collecting have been fostering. The following themes and questions represent some of the themes that could
be addressed:
- Can we understand the rise of private museums as a manifestation of
the collectors' taste making power?
- Matronage: the role of women collectors.
- What role does the collector play in bringing emerging artists into the
main stream?
- Do collectors have the authority to make markets or/and to inscribe the
artists in the canon of art history?
- Who are the "glocal" collectors?

Moving Objects: Representations of Chinese Art in Europe
Session Convenors: Nixi Cura (Christie's Education) and
Monica Merlin (Christie's Education)
The acquisition, exchange and connoisseurship of Chinese art long predate
the very modern construction of the category "Chinese art." Since early
imperial China, the concept of cang (store/hide/treasure) developed within
complex circuits of production and consumption, which in the modern era
assimilated and adapted European modes of collection and display.
Conversely, Chinese objects transferred, collected and exhibited in Europe
generated new frameworks of viewing and understanding Chinese art.
This session seeks to explore how practices in Europe informed and shaped
the meanings, interpretations and definitions of Chinese art and its histories.
Papers employing diverse theoretical frameworks could address the following
questions:
- How have collecting and display strategies in Europe created
alternative places and spaces for the appreciation and presentation of
Chinese art?
- How has European literature around Chinese objects (e.g., accounts of
China, fiction, histories of art, archives, exhibition and sale catalogues)
formed perceptions of Chinese art?
- To what extent have dealers and the art market changed notions of
Chinese art? How have social networks mobilised around the taste for
and knowledge of Chinese art?

Please send your proposal to the Session Convenor/s listed at the top of each
Session by 7 December 2015. Papers should be 20-25 minutes in length and
there will be 3-4 in each 2-hour session, with time for discussion. Proposals
should be accompanied by a brief biography, and the whole submission not
more than 250 words.

The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions for edition 39, which will appear in Winter 2016.

The Bochum Yearbook has been published since 1978 by the Faculty of
East Asian Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. It serves as an international
forum for academic publications on East Asian research, with
individual research papers making up the larger part of the journal.
Alongside these, each edition has a special theme. The authors of the
essays in this section are invited and supported by a guest editor.

Bulletin
of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

The BMFEA publishes
articles by scholars worldwide on all aspects of ancient and classical East
Asia and adjacent regions, including archaeology, art, and architecture; history
and philosophy; literature and linguistics; and related fields.

Contributions seriously engaging
contemporary critical thought in the humanities and social sciences are especially
welcome.

All contributions, for general
issues as well as for special thematic issues, are peer-reviewed. The BMFEA
Editorial Advisory Board mainly consists of scholars based at European centers
for Asia research. Please note that no new manuscripts are reviewed for publication
until June 2010. The editor is Martin Svensson Ekström, Associate Professor,
Stockholm University (bmfea@ostasiatiska.se).

"Asia
Past and Present: New Research from AAS"

The Association for Asian
Studies announces a new scholarly book series—"Asia Past and Present: New Research
from AAS"—to be published under the Association's own imprint. The series will
be overseen by the AAS Editorial Board and the Series Editor, Martha Ann Selby,
professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

AAS expects to publish 2–3
books a year, each of them fully refereed and selected on the basis of exemplary,
original, and enduring scholarship.

Submissions in all areas
of Asian studies are welcome. AAS particularly hopes to support work in emerging
or under-represented fields, such as South Asia, premodern Asia, language and
literature, art history, and literary criticism. In addition to monographs,
other forms of scholarly research—such as essay collections and translations—will
be considered.

Authors interested in publishing
in this new series should first consult the "Author Guidelines"
and then e-mail excerpts of their manuscript (10,000–15,000 words, including
a full Table of Contents and a representative sample chapter) along with a completed
"Author Questionnaire"
to Jonathan Wilson, AAS Publications
Manager.

If, after initial evaluation
by the series editor, your manuscript is selected to be sent for review, you
must at that time be prepared to provide a complete manuscript. Only complete
manuscripts will be reviewed. Completed manuscripts should adhere to the "Author Guidelines."

Authors must be current members
of AAS at the time of submitting their initial manuscript excerpts for evaluation.
In the case of edited volumes with multiple editors, if your manuscript is selected
for review, each editor must hold AAS membership at the time of full manuscript
submission (this requirement does not apply to contributors/single chapter authors).

RIHA Journal

RIHA,
the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art,
is pleased to announce the launch of RIHA
Journal, the new international online-journal for the history of art,
on April 14, 2010. A joint project of 27 institutes in 18 countries, the journal
provides an excellent medium for fostering international discourse among scholars.
Funding is provided by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture
and the Media (Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, BKM).

RIHA Journal features
research articles in either English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish, and
invites submissions on the whole range of art historical topics and approaches.
Manuscripts undergo a double blind peer review process and are published within
few months from submission.

A not-for-profit e-journal
committed to the principles of Open Access, RIHA Journal makes all
articles available free of charge.

RIHA Journal welcomes
submissions at any time. Please contact the RIHA
institute in your country and/or field of expertise, or the managing editor.

Journal
of Central Asian and the Caucasian Studies

[from H-ASIA, 7/12/10]

Journal of Central Asia
and the Caucasian Studies (JCACS) is a refereed journal and published
twice (Winter and Summer) a year. JCACS publishes scholarly articles
in Turkish and English from all over the world. The Editorial Office of the
JCACS is in the International Strategic Research Organisation (ISRO) central
building in Ankara, Turkey. However the journal is an independent publication
in terms of scientific research and the editors decide its publication policy.

The journal encourages interdisciplinary
studies. Manuscripts submitted to JCACS should be original and challenging,
and should not be under consideration by another publication at the time of
submission.

We also welcome short pieces
on recent developments and review articles.

Articles submitted for consideration
of publication are subject to peer review. The editorial board and editors take
consideration whether submitted manuscript follows the rules of scientific writing.
The appropriate articles are then sent to two referees known for their academic
reputation in their respective areas.

The Editors and referees
use three-step guidelines in assessing submissions:

ii) Use of references.
Referencing, sources, relationships of the footnotes to the text.

iii) Scholarship quality:
Depth of research, quality; contribution, originality of the contribution
(new and creative thought) and plausibility of the author's argument.

Upon the referees' decision,
the articles will be published in the journal, or rejected for publication.
The review process lasts from five to 15 weeks. Questions regarding the status
of submissions should be directed to the Editor by e-mail at turgutdem@yahoo.co.uk
or hasanozertem@gmail.com. The referee
reports are kept confidential and stored in the archives for five years.

Aim

JCACS's aim is to
generate a productive dialogue and exchange between theorists, writers and practitioners
in disparate locations. JCACS assumes that one of the main problems in Central
Asian and Caucasian studies is lack of dialogue between writers and scholars
from different cultural backgrounds.

All manuscripts and editorial
correspondence and enquiries should be addressed to the JCACS Editorial Office
(The Office).

Submission

We prefer electronic submission
to turgutdem@yahoo.co.uk or hasanozertem@gmail.com
as a Microsoft word attachment file. Please be sure that you received a confirmation
from The Office. Manuscripts should be one-and-half or double spaced throughout
(including all quotations and footnotes) and typed in English on single sides
of A4 paper. Generous margins on both sides of the page should be allowed. Pages
should be numbered consecutively. The author should retain a copy, as submitted
manuscripts cannot be returned. Full names of the author(s) should be given,
an address for correspondence, and where possible a contact telephone number,
facsimile number and e-mail address.

Length

Articles as a rule should
not exceed 10.000 words, not including footnotes. Book reviews should be about
2.500 word-length for one book, or maximum 3.500 words for two or more books.

Style and Proofs

Authors are responsible for
ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the JCACS style. Editors
will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Please note that
authors are expected to correct and return proofs of accepted articles within
two weeks of receipt.

Titles and Sub-Titles:
Titles in the article should be 12 punt, bold and in uppercase form. The sub-titles
should be 12 punt and in the title case form.

Footnotes: In
the case of books the following order should be observed in footnotes: Author(s),
Title, (Place of Publishing: Publisher, Year), Page. For example:

Asian Women

Asian Women seeks
submissions for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights,
eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men's studies
and other relevant themes in gender studies. Asian Women is accepting
submissions for general theme.

Asian Women, an
interdisciplinary journal covering various Women's Studies, Men's Studies and
Gender Studies themes, hopes to share intelligent original papers as well as
case studies with you. Any contributions of theoretical papers, regional reports,
or case studies based on feminist studies and Asian studies will be welcomed.
The editors welcome submissions that are based on either collaborative or independent
scholarship. They also receive submissions from a wide variety of Asia and other
countries. Contributors need to send their manuscripts to the Research Institute
of Asian Women any time. For more information, contact:

World Art

Two issues of World Art
are published each year. All contributions are peer reviewed, under consultation
with the journal's Advisory Board. Some volumes are guest edited and, where
appropriate, contributions will be grouped by theme. Issues alternate between
those which are general in content and those which engage specific themes.

The editors seek original
material with intellectual integrity. Text as well as image-based contributions
are welcome. Picture or photo essays, with critical commentary will also be
considered.

Antiqua

Antiqua (eISSN 2038-9604)
is a new, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal intended to archaeologists and
scientists having particular interests in the application of scientific techniques
and methodologies to all areas of archaeology. Our journal publishes Original
Research papers as as well as Rapid Communications, Case Histories, Editorials,
and Letters. The journal seeks to provide an international, rapid forum for
archaeologists to share their own knowledge.

Open Access journals are
an ideal platform for the publication of your research enabling you to reach
the widest available audience of professionals in your field of expertise. Publication
in our journals means that your research articles will be available for free
access online being immediately citable. PAGEPress shortens the time needed
before publication, offers a high quality peer-review system, highly-professional
scientific copyediting, DOI assignment, and submission to many online directories
such as the Directory of Open Access Journals, arXiv, GEOBASE, Inspec, Chemical
Abstracts Service, IndexCopernicus, Google Scholar, Scopus, EBSCOHost, Socolar,
OpenJGate and others.

PAGEPress strongly support
the mission of the Council of Science Editors (CSE): "CSE's purpose is to serve
members in the scientific, scientific publishing, and information science communities
by fostering networking, education, discussion, and exchange and to be an authoritative
resource on current and emerging issues in the communication of scientific information."
All individuals collaborating with PAGEPress are strongly invited to comply
with this mission.

Open access publishing does
have its costs. Since PAGEPress does not have subscription charges for its research
content it can defray publishing costs from the Article Processing Charges (APC).
This is because PAGEPress believes that the interests of the scientific community
can best be served by an immediate, worldwide, unlimited, open access to the
full text of research articles. The price for publication of any type of articles
in our journal is EUR 350,00.

Review of
Culture

For the past 20 years, Review
of Culture (RC) has served the needs of Chinese, Portuguese and
English readers by issuing both Chinese and International (Portuguese and English)
editions. A major academic quarterly dealing with Macao history and culture,
RC aims to foster the exchange of ideas relating to Chinese and Western
cultures, to reflect the unique identity of Macao and to stimulate ideas and
discussions of topics related to Macao culture and history, establishing an
intellectual forum for "Macao Studies." RC - International edition
is putting out this call for articles.

Please contact us with projects
and articles that fall within our editorial guidelines. In a nutshell: Macao
Studies, (Related) Sinology, Asia/China-Europe/West Encounter in the field of
Humanities. More on the RC editorial guidelines in our on-line
edition.

At the moment, a line of
research we are pursuing is Anglo-American presence in Macao and the South China
Seas and Sino-American historic relations.

Other projects under development:
- 100 years of Portuguese and Chinese republics (1910/1911)
- Western coats of arms in Chinese porcelains and pottery
- 500 years of Portugal-Siam relations and the role of Macau (RC is
associated with the official commemorations that are taking place in Lisbon
and Bangkok)
- Malacca 500 years (1511-2011)
- Macau in the origins of the Chinese migration to (Portuguese) Africa
- Macanese diaspora(s)

We accept (preferably) original
articles but we also consider papers that were only presented in public lectures/conferences
and not yet published.

Royalties vary between 500
and 1,000 American dollars, depending on originality and length. Academic papers
will have usually 7,000-10,000 words. Short essays and book reviews are also
welcome.

After approval of a paper
we usually ask for a set of materials, as follows:
- Digital article with automatic footnotes
- Bibliography (References)
- Abstract (150-250 words)
- Keywords
- Bionote of the Author (up to 80 words)
- Illustrations or suggestions of illustrations with a clear indication of the
source.

Since it was founded, in
1987, hundreds of researchers worldwide had contributed to RC. I sincerely
hope you or a fellow researcher of your group of contacts can become another
valuable contributor.

Bulletin
of the Society for East Asian Archaeology

The Bulletin of the Society
for East Asian Archaeology (BSEAA) (ISSN 1864-6018, print version:
ISSN 1864-6026, ed. Barbara Seyock, Tuebingen) was initiated in March 2007,
and two volumes have been
published since. BSEAA welcomes essays on East Asian archaeology, and it moreover
provides a means of publishing smaller manuscripts such as field reports, project
outlines, conference reports and papers, book reviews, museum roundups etc.
The contributions appear online at varying intervals over the year. BSEAA is
not peer-reviewed. The editor(s), however, reserves the right to seek for additional
opinion, to edit the manuscripts, or to decline the publication of manuscripts
inappropriate to the aims and objectives of SEAA.

BSEAA is an open
access publication, with the exception of a 3-months preview period for SEAA
members and authors. The average delay between submitting your manuscript and
having it published is about 4 to 6 weeks. Colour photos and illustrations are
welcome. Non English-native speakers receive a helping hand.

International
Journal of Tantric Studies

[from H-ASIA, 5/31/11]

We are seeking academics
and bona fide scholars to write and submit finished papers and review papers
to our scholarly online publication (established 1995), the International
Journal of Tantric Studies. The IJTS is open to all bona fide
scholars in Hindu and Buddhist Tantric and Tantra-related studies, translations
and translators in Sanskrit, Bengali, Vernacular, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese,
etc. We are looking for articles that engage any aspect of this broad theme.

Exposure

Exposure, the journal
of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), invites submissions for scholarly
articles, interviews, conversations, art and cultural criticism, pedagogical
essays, book and exhibition reviews, and any manuscripts that engage with the
contemporary conversation on photography and related media. A leading voice
in the conversation on photography and related media for over thirty years,
Exposure publishes an inclusive range of images and ideas by those
passionate about photographic discourse.

For publication consideration,
please submit an abstract of no more than one hundred words, a list of illustrations,
and a biographical statement of no more than fifty words. Detailed submission
guidelines and more information on the journal can be found on the Web site
at https://www.spenational.org/publications/exposure.
Submissions are accepted year-round.

Palgrave
Studies in the History of the Media

[from H-ASIA, 8/3/11]

Palgrave
Studies in the History of the Media was launched in 2010 with the objective
of becoming a leading international series in media history. Its overriding
objective is to publish high caliber research in the field which will help shape
current interpretations not only of the media, in any of its forms, but also
of the powerful relationship between the media and politics, society, and the
economy.

A number of important monographs
have already appeared: Dr Christoph Muller's West-Germans against the West
(2010) and Professor Michael Krysto's American Radio in China (April
2011). More studies are due out soon, not least Professor Joel Weiner's Americanization
of the British Press (October 2011).

The series editors would
welcome monograph proposals on any aspect of the history of the media from the
mediaeval and early modern periods up to the present day.

Informal enquiries are very
welcome. Proposals can be completed on Palgrave's standard
form and submitted to:

Dr
Alexander Wilkinson
Director, Centre for the History of the Media
School of History and Archives
University College Dublin
Dublin 4
Ireland.

Journal
of Asian Studies

[from MCLC, 8/11/11]

The Journal of Asian
Studies has begun using Editorial
Manager, a web-based manuscript submission system.

We ask that all new manuscript
submissions be submitted through Editorial Manager. Please note that if you
currently have a manuscript under review, it will not show up in the database.
Before submitting a manuscript for consideration, please read the "Requirements
for Manuscript Submission" to ensure that your work conforms with the Journal's
guidelines on style and formatting.

If you have previously submitted
a manuscript, served as a reviewer, or helped us in some other way, we invite
you to register with Editorial Manager and update your contact information.
Please let us know about your areas of interest, and if you would like to review
books and/or manuscripts. Once you are in the system, you can also submit manuscripts
to JAS. You will not have to reenter your contact or specialty information after
you have registered unless you need to update your information. If you ever
forget your password, you can ask to have it sent to you.

International
Journal of Islamic Architecture

[from H-ASIA, 8/11/11]

The International Journal
of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes bi-annually, peer reviewed
articles on the urban design and planning, architecture and landscape architecture
of the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa
and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions.
The main emphasis is on the detailed analysis of the practical, historical and
theoretical aspects of architecture, with a focus on both design and its reception.
The journal also aims to encourage dialogue and discussion between practitioners
and scholars. Articles that bridge the academic-practitioner divide are highly
encouraged.

IJIA is now soliciting manuscripts
in the following categories:

Design in Theory:
DiT manuscripts focus on the history, theory and critical analyses of architecture,
urban planning and design and landscape architecture. Essays submitted should
be a minimum of 5,000 words but not more than 8,000 words.

Design in Practice:
DiP manuscripts focus on the practice of architecture, planning and landscape
design. It is preferential that DiP papers focus on contextual and/or conceptual
issues, analysis or critique of proposals or built projects. Submissions may
also include interviews or practitioner reflections or lessons learned. Manuscripts
should range from 2,000 to 3,000 words.

Book, Media and Exhibition
Reviews: For those are interested in writing book/media/exhibition reviews
for IJIA , please submit your CV and your areas of expertise and interest
and the books/media/exhibition you wish to review to Nancy
Um, the Reviews Editor, for consideration. Unsolicited reviews will not
be accepted. The length of the reviews should generally not exceed 1000 words
for one book review essay and no more than 1800 words for an essay that reviews
multiple books.

Guoji
Song Yanjiu [International Song Studies]

[from H-ASIA, 8/22/11]

Hangzhou Normal University
has established a new Academy of Chinese Studies (Guoxue Yuan); and among its
five Centers is an International Center for Research on the Song (Guoji Song
Yanjiu Zhongxin). The Song Center and its new journal (Guoji Song Yanjiu)
take a broad view of the Song, so it is not limited to history, but encompasses
other disciplines, such as the fine arts, literature, archeology, etc. Studies
of the Western Xia, the Liao, Jin and Yuan are welcome, especially as they relate
to the Song. Moreover, the Center and its journal invite research on Song studies
in later dynasties in East Asia and also during the Modern era worldwide. In
the future, the Center will announce programs to assist the research of graduate
students and professors; however, the focus at present is the journal.

Hoyt Tillman (Tian Hao) is
serving as chief editor of the journal in close collaboration with Professor
Deng Xiaonan of Peking University and other members of the editorial board.
The journal will publish research articles and book reviews in either Chinese
or English. In addition, the journal will publish Chinese translations of selected
important articles in other languages.

Routledge
Critical Studies in Buddhism series

[from H-ASIA, 8/24/11]

Routledge
Critical Studies in Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the Buddhist
tradition. The series explores this complex and extensive tradition from a variety
of perspectives, using a range of different methodologies. The series is diverse
in its focus, including historical, philological, cultural, and sociological
investigations into the manifold features and expressions of Buddhism worldwide.
It also presents works of constructive and reflective analysis, including the
role of Buddhist thought and scholarship in a contemporary, critical context
and in the light of current social issues.

The series is expansive and
imaginative in scope, spanning more than two and a half millennia of Buddhist
history. It is receptive to all original, scholarly works that are of significance
and interest to the broader field of Buddhist Studies. Books published in the
series are first issued in a high-quality durable hardcover format geared toward
institutional sales, and then they are subsequently published in an affordable
paper format through the Routledge Paperbacks Direct program. Books in the series
benefit from Routledges strong international presence, which markets and distributes
books worldwide.

Karen
Lang
Department of History of Art
Milburn House
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7HS
United Kingdom.

The Art Bulletin
no longer accepts hard-copy submissions. All submissions must be sent electronically,
either via e-mail or a large-file transfer service such as YouSendIt.com.
All files must be in Microsoft Word or a Microsoft Word–compatible format. Please
review the submission
guidelines for more information.

Reviews Editor

The Art Bulletin
does not accept unsolicited book and exhibition reviews. Inquiries, letters
regarding reviews, and commissioned reviews should be sent to:

Art
Review

[from MCLC, 10/30/11]

Art Review is an
illustrated bilingual international academic journal which publishes essays
and reviews on all types of art, artists and art theories. Contributions in
either English or Chinese are eagerly solicited. The journal is sponsored by
Sichuan University, one of the most prestigious universities in China.

Art Review provides
a broad field for various approaches and arguments. It covers not only essays
on art history, art criticism and aesthetic theory, but also interdisciplinary
art studies such as philosophical, psychological, anthropological, semiotic,
sociological, politico-economic, or any other approaches so long as it aims
at a enlightening interpretation of art.

Art Review advocates
the idea of "BIG ART," with no constrains on the genres and subject of the art
to be studied. The genres covered not only could be traditional art (painting,
sculpture, architecture, calligraphy, music, dance, drama, folk art, ethnic
art, cinema, etc), but also any form of art so long as you sufficiently argue
that it is art. For instance, Art Review expects studies on "industrial"
art such as advertisement, packaging, fashion, toys and gifts design, etc. Art
Reviewparticularly welcomes studies on environment art, such as landscape, gardening,
decoration, and digital art design such as video game and animation.

The economic emergence of
East Asia--first Japan, followed by the Little Dragons and Southeast Asia, and
the recent rise of China, has produced a paradigm shift in the study of the
East Asian regions. Not only has an earlier understanding based on adaptation
to Western models given way to a re-evaluation of the interface between the
local and the global, but scholarship itself has become increasingly transnational.
This is evidenced in hitherto unseen levels of transnational collaboration,
conferences and research programs, and the creation of on-line archives and
virtual intellectual communities. East Asia, broadly defined to include both
northeast and Southeast Asia, has contributed greatly to this shift. This series
aims at providing a platform for the products of this scholarship, encouraging
interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative research on the countries and
peoples of the East Asian region, and their regional and global interactions.
In an effort to reflect the full range of collaborations that are now taking
place across the globe this series will feature monographs and edited volumes
as well as translated works that explore the global processes of change in East
Asia and the historical role of East Asia in the creation of the institutions,
ideas, and practices that constitute our contemporary world.

Brill welcomes submissions
of book proposals and manuscripts for consideration for inclusion in the series.
Submissions should be in English and can be sent to the attention of the Series
Editors, Billy So, Madeleine
Zelin, or the Publishing Editor, Qin
Higley.

RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt

Submissions are invited from
authors (artists and scholars) who can make a provocative contribution to this
book series. We are particularly looking for further titles in the area of socio-political
aesthetics or global aesthetics.

The RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt
(RaRa) series of books expands the parameters of art and aesthetics in a creative
and meaningful way beyond visual traditions. Encompassing the multisensory,
collaborative, participatory and transitory practices that have developed over
the last twenty years, Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art is an innovative and revolutionary
take on the intersection between theory and practice. The series aims to:

critique conventional
approaches to thinking about art practice and aesthetics

reconsider the interrelationships
between theories and art practice on equal terms

Theoretical
Studies in Literature and Art

Theoretical Studies in
Literature and Art (TSLA), which was initiated in 1980 and published
bimonthly, is one of the most highly ranked academic journals in China that
publish original research articles in arts and humanities, especially in literary
theory. From 2012 year onwards, TSLA will publish original academic articles
that are written in English. Articles that deal with any issues in literary
theory, critical theory, aesthetics, philosophy of art, cultural studies will
be welcome. Discussions of Asian issues, particularly issues concerning China
are encouraged but not required.

The length of papers should
be about 6000-12000 words and in MLA format. The papers will be peer-reviewed,
and the final decision about publication will be notified in four months. Authors
can send e-mails to inquire the status if they receive no feedback in two months.

Queries and contributions
can be sent to tsla@vip.126.com. Contributions
must be sent as attachments in either rtf(s) or Word 97-2003 file(s) with "contribution
from xxx (i.e. your name)" as the subject heading.

Asian
Ethnology

[from H-ASIA, 1/26/12]

Dear Colleagues:

I have recently agreed to
assume the co-editorship of the journal Asian Ethnology. Asian
Ethnology is a semi-annual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the promotion
of ethnographic and ethnological research on the peoples and cultures of Asia.
Though rendered entirely in English, the journal draws manuscript submissions
from across Asia and Europe as well as North America. Topically, it occupies
a special niche located at the intersection of Anthropology, Folklore, and Asian
Studies. The journal has been particularly instrumental in bringing the important
work of Asian scholars (that is, scholars of Asian nationality) to the attention
of an English readership, thereby helping to mitigate Western domination of
the global academic arena.

Formerly called Asian
Folklore Studies, the journal was founded by Austrian ethnologist Matthias
Eder in Beijing, China in 1942. Under threat from the Maoist takeover in 1949,
Eder relocated to Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, from where the journal
has been based ever since. We are especially interested in submissions on the
following topics:

narratives, performances,
and other forms of cultural representations
popular religious concepts
vernacular approaches to health and healing
local knowledge
collective memory and uses of the past
material culture
cultural transformations in diasporas
transnational flows
ecological issues

Generally, each issue of
the journal contains at least one or two articles on the South Asian region,
so we encourage you to submit your work to us. We also encourage thematic issues
(e.g., an issue on Chinese folklore guest edited by Thomas DuBois is forthcoming).
More information on the journal can be found on the home
page.

"Studies in Art Historiography" series

"Studies
in Art Historiography," published by Ashgate, welcomes
contributions from architectural historians. Much recent
historiography has focused on scholars of "Art History"
but many of these made considerable contributions to
architectural history, from Heinrich Wölfflin whose
Renaissance und Barock is essentially architectural
history, to Rudolf Wittkower whose impact is usually
assessed in relation to the architectural profession
and Modernist architecture. Cornelius Gurlitt, Geoffrey
Scott, Hans Sedlmayr, Nikolaus Pevsner, Colin Rowe,
Venturi and Scott Brown are just some of the names that
come to mind and Studies in Art Historiography welcomes
proposals for volumes dedicated to relevant themes in
architectural historiography as well as individual studies
of significant figures in the field.

Nineteenth-Century
Art Worldwide

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
has received a grant from the Mellon Foundation for a three-year capacity-building
initiative to maximize the possibilities of the journal electronic delivery.
With this in mind, NCAW is soliciting potential articles that take full advantage
of new web technologies either in the research or the publication phase, or
both. The Mellon grant is intended to help authors in the development phase
of their articles as well as to aid NCAW in the implementation phase. NCAW is
seeking scholarship that engages in one or more of the following, interrelated
areas of investigation:

Data Mining and Analysis:
Use of data analytics programs (e.g., SEASR, Network Workbench) to investigate
connections among particular groups or individuals, such as artists, writers,
art dealers, art markets and other networks of exchange (social networks).
See for example "Mapping
the Republic of Letters," produced by researchers and technologists at
Stanford University.

Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) and Mapping:
Use of maps in concert with data sets (e.g., depictions of sites, location
of objects, paths of travel) in order to investigate and communicate change
over time and space. The website for the project "Imago
Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi's Grand Tour of Rome," for example, links Giambattista
Nolli's 1748 map of Rome with vedute created by Vasi, providing insight into
the vedutismo tradition as well as the urban development of Rome in the eighteenth
century.

High-Resolution imaging
and dynamic image presentation:
Use of panoramic and/or high-resolution imagery to view, for example, panoramas,
conservation images (x-ray, infrared reflectography), moving images. The QTVR
panoramas of world architecture produced by Columbia University, are an
example of the kind of image viewing interface that could be used in support
of scholarship on, for example, panorama paintings or large-scale architectural
installations.

Authors are not expected
to have extensive technical expertise themselves; instead NCAW will work with
them to help in realizing the computing aspects of their project. Authors should,
however, be generally knowledgeable about the technological possibilities related
to their project and should be able to articulate how both specific computer-based
research methods and the online publication format connect with the research
questions on which their project focuses. In addition, authors should expect
to collaborate with technical experts on the realization of their projects.
To this end, proposals which give some indication of how authors envision working
with such experts, or which identify specific collaborative partners will be
preferred. Finally, proposals should outline projects which are relatively small-scale,
able to be realized within a time span of about three to six months and requiring
around 100 hours of development work.

Interested contributors are
asked to submit a 500-word abstract that describes the author's (or authors')
project and explains how it fits within the areas described above and why advanced
computing technologies are necessary for conducting this research and/or for
presenting the resulting scholarship. In addition, they are asked to provide
a short CV and a budget. For further information or to submit an application
for funding, e-mail to Petra Chu and
Emily Pugh.

Journal
of Art Historiography

The Journal
of Art Historiography is an Open Access journal that exists to support
and promote the study of the history and practice of art historical writing.
The historiography of art has been strongly influenced by traditions inaugurated
by Giorgio Vasari, Winckelmann and German academics of the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Consequent to the expansion of universities, museums and
galleries, the field has evolved to include areas outside of its traditional
boundaries.

There is a double danger
that contemporary scholarship will forget its earlier legacy and that it will
neglect the urgency and rigour with which those early debates were conducted.
The earlier legacy remains embedded in ‘normal' practice. More recent art history
also stands in need of its own scrutiny. The journal is committed to studying
art historical scholarship, in its institutional and conceptual foundations,
from the past to the present day in all areas and all periods.

This journal will ignore
the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone expression "art history"
and allow and encourage the full range of enquiry that encompassed the visual
arts in its broadest sense as well as topics now falling within archaeology,
anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches. It
will welcome contributions from young and established scholars and is aimed
at building an expanded audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised
topic of investigation.

Besides articles, it will
accept notes, reviews, letters, bibliographical surveys and translations. It
will be published every June and December and include both peer-reviewed and
commissioned contributions.

It will be the first contemporary
journal dedicated specifically to the study of art historiography and its ambition
is to make it the point of first call for scholars and students interested in
that area. It is being supported by the Department of the History of Art at
the University of Birmingham. In collaboration with Ashgate it also publishes
Monographs in Art Historiography.

Journal
of Chinese Military History

[from H-ASIA, 3/11/12]

The Journal of Chinese
Military History, edited by David A. Graff and David Curtis Wright, is
a peer-reviewed semi-annual from Brill that will begin publication in 2012.
It publishes both research articles and book reviews, aiming to fill the need
for a journal devoted specifically to China's martial past. It takes the broadest
possible view of military history, embracing both the study of battles and campaigns
and the broader, social-history oriented approaches that have come to be known
as "the new military history," and it covers all of the Chinese past, from prehistory
through the pre-imperial and imperial periods down to the present day, aiming
to publish a balanced mix of articles that represent a variety of different
approaches and address both the modern and pre-modern periods of Chinese history.
The Journal of Chinese Military History also welcomes comparative and theoretical
work, as well as studies of the military interactions between China and other
states and peoples, including East Asian neighbors such as Japan, Korea, and
Vietnam.

Manuscripts for articles
should be between 7,500 and 20,000 words, double-spaced, and submitted electronically
as MS Word documents.

This is a peer-reviewed e-journal
publishing original and innovative research in the multidisciplinary field of
Chinese Studies, with articles in a wide range of subject areas--history, economics,
politics, society, archaeology, language, literature, philosophy, culture, gender,
international relations and law--relating to modern and pre-modern China.

We welcome submissions from
all scholars with a focus on China, including items that cross disciplinary
boundaries or do not otherwise match the subject areas listed above. All research
articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor
screening and anonymous double-blind refereeing by two referees. If you would
like to submit an article or a book review, please check the submission guidelines
available on our website.
All queries and material should be submitted by e-mail [to] jbacs@bacsuk.org.uk.

Cross-Currents:
East Asian History and Culture Review

[from H-ASIA, 5/22/12]

Cross-Currents:
East Asian History and Culture Review (e-ISSN: 2158-9674) is a peer-reviewed
quarterly online journal that uses new technologies to facilitate a dialogue
among East Asia scholars around the world that is enhanced by audio-visual and
multilingual features. The e-journal is embedded in a web-based platform with
functions for collaboration, discussion, and an innovative editing and publishing
process. The semi-annual print issues of Cross-Currents (ISSN: 2158-9666)
published by University of Hawai'i Press feature articles and review essays
that have been selected from the journal's online counterpart for their scholarly
excellence and relevance to the journal's mission.

Cross-Currents offers
its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge
perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both
English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities. A joint enterprise
of the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the
Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (IEAS),
Cross-Currents seeks to balance issues traditionally addressed by Western
humanities and social science journals with issues of immediate concern to scholars
in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. This English-language journal includes
scholarship on material from the sixteenth century to the present day that has
significant implications for current models of understanding East Asian history
and culture. An editorial board consisting of established scholars in Asia and
North America provides oversight of the journal, in collaboration with two faculty
co-editors (one each at Korea University and UC Berkeley).

The editors invite online
submissions of original, unpublished research articles. The submission process
and complete information about manuscript preparation can be found at http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/authors.
Cross-Currents also features photo essays, review essays, annotated
bibliographies, and summaries of important recent publications in C/J/K/V. We
welcome proposals for these categories as well.

Journal
of Asia Pacific Studies

[from H-NET, 3/13/13]

Journal of Asia Pacific
Studies (JAPS) is calling for papers for the May issue. JAPS is a peer-reviewed academic journal published in Florida, USA. The journal is published both in print and online. JAPS is indexed by EBSCOhost and other prestigous databases.

The goal of the site is to
offer all scholars a glimpse of the "immediate present" of the field. Rather
than reviewing monographs, the publication of which may take a number of years
after the completion of a project, the site is dedicated to examining what is
happening right now in the field.

The Asia-related branches
of Dissertation Reviews are currently seeking new dissertations to
be featured in the 2012-2013 season. If you would like to have your dissertation
reviewed (2011 defense onwards), or would like to contribute a review, please
contact us at: dissertationreviews@gmail.com.
For more details, please visit the sites below:

If you work in any of the
fields listed below, and have recently spent time/will spend time conducting
research in archives, libraries, special collections, museums, private collections,
etc., please contact us at dissertationreviews@gmail.com.

Intellectual
History

[from H-ASIA, 7/11/12]

Intellectual history has
long held a central place in the scholarly traditions of France, Germany, and
Britain, as well as China. The new journal Intellectual History aims
to promote this disciplinary field in the world of Chinese-language scholarship,
especially that of Taiwan, though we will also publish English-language articles.
We hope to stimulate thinking about intellectual history in the broadest terms
and to encourage a community of scholars to forge closer ties.

The new journal is interested
in the processes by which individual texts and particular systems of thought
have been made, developed and appropriated in different civilizations at different
periods of history. In this context the word 'text' will be taken to cover philosophical,
scientific and literary texts, art objects, music, experimental instruments,
and etc. Intellectual History will be open to all contributions that touch upon
the development of thought in China and in the rest of the world, and that consider
theoretical and methodological issues. We welcome contributions that report
findings of historical investigations and of textual analyses; moreover, we
especially welcome innovative and suggestive approaches to new research topics
of historical interest.

Intellectual History's
inaugural issue will be published by Lianjing Publishing Company in the spring
of 2013. The journal will publish semi-annually in Chinese and English. Chinese
style sheet: please see Xinshixue; English: please see Modern Intellectual
History. Paper submissions and queries to: intellectual.history2013@gmail.com.

Asian Archaeology

Asian Archaeology
is an annual journal that is sponsored by Research Center for Chinese Frontier
Archaeology (RCCFA), Jilin University (the Key Institute of Humanities and Social
Sciences granted by the Ministry of education, PRC). The first issue will be
published in 2012.

Asian Archaeology
is an academic English journal that publishes original papers on the new discoveries,
achievements and viewpoints of Chinese archaeology, also concerning the new
discoveries and research of other parts of Asian and Oceanian areas, mainly
for overseas scholars. Asian Archaeology will draw up the four columns or theses
as follows:

1) Chinese archaeology.
It includes reports and research of new archaeological materials in Chinese
archaeology.

2) Asian archaeology.
It includes the new discoveries and research of other parts of Asian and Oceanian
areas.

4) Newsletters.
It includes the important new discoveries of China and other parts of Asia.

We accept English manuscripts
that are best about 8,000 to 10,000 words in length (including figures and references).
A manuscript should be prepared with an abstract (about 600 words), a list of
five keywords and a brief introduction of authors. The Manuscripts are contributed
by bidirectional Anonymous Paper Reviewing System. If the manuscript is printed,
author will be presented five sample journals and copyright royalties.

Journal
of Jesuit Studies

A new quarterly journal is
to be launched by Brill: The Journal
of Jesuit Studies. Each issue of the journal will contain an extensive
review section that looks at all aspects of Jesuit history (from the sixteenth
century to the present day, and in all corners of the globe), as well as books
that explore the Jesuit role in the arts and sciences, theology, education,
literature, and the many other avenues of Jesuitica. We will also include numerous
reviews on the broader history of post-1500 Christianity and other related topics.

Publishers are invited to
send copies for review consideration to the following address:

Singaporean
Journal of Buddhist Studies

The Buddhist College of Singapore
has just launched a new peer-reviewed Chinese & English journal of Buddhist
Studies, the Singaporean
Journal of Buddhist Studies. The first issue is to be published in a year
or so, after that it will be published twice a year.

It accepts unpublished research
papers on all aspects of Buddhist Studies. Interested scholars can send their
work to chuancheng@bcs.edu.sg.

Asia Pacific:
Perspectives

[from H-ASIA, 12/20/12]

The University of San Francisco
Center for the Pacific Rim is pleased to announce the call for papers for Asia
Pacific: Perspectives. The editors welcome submissions from all fields
of the social sciences and the humanities that focus on the Asia Pacific region,
especially those adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to issues
of interrelatedness in the Asia Pacific region.

Asia Pacific: Perspectives
(ISSN: 2167-1699) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal published twice a year
by the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. Our task is to
inform public opinion through publications that express divergent views and
ideas that promote cross-cultural understanding, tolerance, and the dissemination
of knowledge. The journal offers a forum for the exchange of ideas from both
established scholars in the field and graduate students.

To submit a paper, Send a
single DOUBLE-SPACED copy with any and all inclusions to the editors. Electronic
copies must be in MS Word or compatible format; tables, charts or images may
be inserted in the text document or be included as separate files. Further guidelines
are posted at http://www.usfca.edu/pacificrim/perspectives/.
Submissions should be addressed to:

Series of
Jesuit Studies

Associated with the Journal
of Jesuit Studies, SJS will target those areas of scholarship on Jesuit
history in its broader context that have been lamentably neglected but it will
also invite contributions of important but hard to find monographs in other
languages, which we shall encourage to be translated.

American
Journal of Chinese Studies

The
American Journal of Chinese Studies is soliciting manuscripts in the
humanities (including history, literature, religion, fine arts, philosophy,
etc.) that focus on Chinese communities, including mainland China (past and
present), Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora.

AJCS is a peer-reviewed
interdisciplinary journal published by the American
Association for Chinese Studies. Past issues have included humanistic work,
but the emphasis was on social sciences. The editorial board is looking to increase
the number of humanistic papers published in the journal.

For questions about submission
and subscriptions contact the journal editor:

Professor Thomas
Bellows
Department of Political Science
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78249.

Journal
of Curatorial Studies

The editors of the Journal
of Curatorial Studies invite proposals for original research articles on
the subject of curating, exhibitions and display culture. The journal also seeks
reviews of recent exhibitions, books and conferences.

The Journal of Curatorial
Studies is an international, peer-reviewed publication that explores the
increasing relevance of curating and exhibitions and their impact on institutions,
audiences, aesthetics and display culture. Inviting perspectives from visual
studies, art history, critical theory, cultural studies and other academic fields,
the journal welcomes a diversity of disciplinary approaches on curating and
exhibitions broadly defined. By catalyzing debate and serving as a venue for
the emerging discipline of curatorial studies, this journal encourages the development
of the theory, practice and history of curating, as well as the analysis of
exhibitions and display culture in general.

The Journal of Curatorial
Studies publishes three times a year and considers submissions on a continuing
basis. Please send a 250-word abstract and a CV to the editors. Essays run 5-6000
words. Please send submissions and correspondence to the Editors: Jim
Drobnick (OCAD University) and Jennifer
Fisher (York University).

Eurosinica

[from MCLC, 3/16/13]

Eurosinica is a book series for monographs of various thematic focuses,
sharing the goal of studying culture and literature in contemporary or
historical contexts. The series, under the imprint of Peter Lang, was
founded in 1984 by the German sinologist Günther Debon (1921–2005) and the
Canadian comparatist Adrian Hsia (1938–2010); so far, thirteen books have
been published. While the founding editors placed the emphasis on the
transfer processes of classical literary works and motifs between
cultures, the continuation of their work requires new approaches.

Rather than operate within the conceptual framework of "cultural dialogue"
between an East and a West viewed as distinct entities, the series editors
tend to a view of cultures in contact. Eurosinica is accordingly open for
studies and interpretation of authors, personalities, genres and
individual works committed to an understanding of humanity as a common
source of values which, rather than be impeded by cultural, linguistic or
ethnic disparity, are being reshaped and reinvented in different settings.

From the basic concept the series' founders have contributed, we will
carry on the approach to literature, the arts and history as transnational
narratives emerging out of distinct contextualization and relying on as
well as contributing to both the European and the Sinic cultural spheres.
We explicitly welcome well-argued innovative interpretations of classical
works, as we do historical and translation studies. At a time of ongoing
global changes of aesthetic and critical paradigms, Eurosinica does not
intend to propose the East-West-paradigm as a last refuge for intellectual
cultural conservatism, but rather envisages new critical approaches to the
sporadic process of aesthetic and historical interactions ("contacts")
between formerly allegedly "separated" cultural spheres.

Eurosinica expects to publish between one and two volumes annually and
aims for a balance between studies of contemporary or ancient focus. It
thereby seeks to counter the trend of separating research on classical and
modern issues.

Eurosinica will consider manuscripts in European languages. The series
editors and board members are scholars at universities in the Baltic and
Nordic countries of Europe, as well as in mainland China, Japan, Taiwan,
Hong Kong and Macao. They represent the disciplines of comparative
literature, cultural studies and history in European and East Asian
languages.

Asiascape: Digital Asia

Launching
in 2014, the bi-annual academic journal Asiascape:
Digital Asia now invites submissions for research
articles that explore the political, social, and cultural
impact of digital media in Asia. Although we do not
exclude scholarship in digital culture and culture studies,
Asiascape: Digital Asia's focus is on research
from the social sciences, arts, media and communication
studies, information and computer sciences, and area
studies.

Bringing together state-of-the-art research from these fields, 'Asiascape: Digital Asia' examines the role that information, communication, and other digital technologies play in Asian societies (Japan, the Koreas, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines), as well as in intra-regional dynamics and transnational links between the region and other parts of the world. The peer-reviewed journal addresses issues such as:

- media converge in the digital age
- transnational flows of digital culture,
- e-governance,
- the politics of network societies,
- online activism and digital challenges to state power,
- the workings of social and participatory media, and
- the dynamics of digital play.

The editors welcome contributions that analyse these issues through research that takes seriously the workings of ICT in different contexts, that critically theorizes such workings, and that is based on authoritative empirical analysis. We particularly encourage inter- and multi- disciplinary research that adopts digital methods, as well as theoretically-minded work that critically explores how ICTs can be understood through the lenses of different realities in Asia.

Asiascape: Digital Asia further welcomes reviews of book on the topics outlined above, with a specific focus on reviews that introduce non-Asian related works and scholars to the area-studies community, and research on Asia to the larger field of digital media and communication studies. In addition, the editors encourage reviews of relevant conferences, as well as of digital platforms and media products from Asia, such as social media websites, video sharing services, games, digital tools, etc.

Manuscript submissions should not exceed a length of 10,000 words, including notes and references. Review articles should not exceed 1,000 words. Asiascape: Digital Asia only accepts English-language articles.

Architectural Histories

Architectural Histories, the new open access journal of the European
Architectural History Network (EAHN), is now online and open to
submissions.

Architectural Histories is an international, blind peer-reviewed
scholarly journal that creates a space where historically grounded
research into all aspects of architecture and the built environment can
be made public, consulted, and discussed. The journal is open to
historical, historiographic, theoretical, and critical contributions
that engage with architecture and the built environment from a
historical perspective.

We invite original contributions of the highest quality from scholars
and critics in all stages of their career. The journal especially
welcomes contributions that stimulate reflection and dialogue about the
place of history and historical research within the varied and
multifaceted ways in which architecture and the built environment are
studied and debated today, across disciplines, cultures and regions.

We publish scholarly articles as well as position papers, shorter pieces
addressing topical issues in our field of interest. For more information
and guidelines, please visit journal.eahn.org. To submit a paper, please
register for the journal and submit online. Questions and queries may be
addressed to the editor-in-chief, Maarten Delbeke.

Third Text

Third
Text is an international art and visual culture
journal founded in 1987 and has to date published 121
issues. The journal occupies a forefront position at
the research interface of contemporary art practice
and critical theory.

Third
Text invites submissions of original articles that
will contribute radically new perspectives on the global
artworld and its challenges to the ecology of contemporary
art practices in the aftermath of postcolonial and institutional
critiques. The journal welcomes varied explorations
of visual art, cinema, video, photography, performance
and activist art. Articles of 6000 words are preferred
but lengthier ones will be considered on merit. Contributors
should consult authors'
guidelines on submissions.

Third Text has launched a bi-monthly online platform which also calls for original submissions of articles and reviews (1500 words) to be published under Creative Commons Agreement with authors.

ARCHITECTURE_MPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society)

The journal's themes revolve around the relationship of architecture(s) in the politico-media-complex. Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to: architecture, landscape design, urbanism, critical studies, human geography, media studies, design. It is published monthly on-line and has a two yearly print version. It is indexed with all the main databases including Avery Index, EBSCO, ProQuest, Ulrichsweb etc.

In addition to full papers submitted for peer review, abstracts and works in progress will be accepted for initial consideration.

The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950

Book series from Ashgate Publishing
Series Editor: Michael Yonan (University of Missouri)

The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950 provides
a forum for the broad study of object acquisition and collecting
practices in their global dimensions from the eighteenth through the
mid-twentieth centuries. The series seeks to illuminate the
intersections between material culture studies, art history, and the
history of collecting. HMCC takes as its starting point the idea that
objects both contributed to the formation of knowledge in the past and
likewise contribute to our understanding of the past today. The human
relationship to objects has proven a rich field of scholarly inquiry,
with much recent scholarship either anthropological or sociological
rather than art historical in perspective. Underpinning this series is
the idea that the physical nature of objects contributes substantially
to their social meanings, and therefore that the visual, tactile, and
sensual dimensions of objects are critical to their interpretation.
HMCC therefore seeks to bridge anthropology and art history, sociology
and aesthetics. It encompasses the following areas of concern:

1. Material culture in its broadest dimension, including the high arts
of painting and sculpture, the decorative arts (furniture, ceramics,
metalwork, etc.), and everyday objects of all kinds.

2. Collecting practices, be they institutionalized activities
associated with museums, governmental authorities, and religious
entities, or collecting done by individuals and social groups.

3. The role of objects in defining self, community, and difference in
an increasingly international and globalized world, with cross-cultural
exchange and travel the central modes of object transfer.

4. Objects as constitutive of historical narratives, be they devised
by historical figures seeking to understand their past or in the form
of modern scholarly narratives.

The
series publishes interdisciplinary and comparative research
on objects that addresses one or more of these perspectives
and includes monographs, thematic studies, and edited
volumes of essays. A list of current and forthcoming
titles in the series can be viewed at http://www.ashgate.com/Default.aspx?page=4163.

Proposals should take the form of either:
1. a preliminary letter of inquiry, briefly describing the project; or
2. a formal prospectus including: abstract, brief statement of your
critical methodology, table of contents, sample chapter, estimated word
count, estimate of the number and type of
illustrations to be included, and a c.v.

Museum and Curatorial Studies Review

Museum and Curatorial Studies Review is a new peer-reviewed journal
powered by the University of California, Berkeley Electronic Press,
and the California Digital Library. Each issue will feature
full-length academic articles, exhibition reviews, book reviews and
dialogic contributions (such as interviews and open letters).

Volume 1, Number 1 will be published very soon. The editors are now
seeking contributions to journal's second issue.

All submissions should be sent electronically in MS Word format and
follow The Chicago Manual of Style. The details for each submission
type are below:

Article (6,000-9000 words): send a fully drafted, polished version of
the paper to be blind peer reviewed.

Interview, open letter, or other conversational piece (2,000-6,000
words): send a 300-400 word proposal for the item [Note: interviewers
are responsible for all transcription work]. Final drafts are also welcome.

Exhibition review (1,000-2,500 words): send a 250 word proposal that
includes a description of the exhibition you intend to review and a
brief discussion of its significance to the field of museum and
curatorial studies.

Book review (1,000-1,500 words): send a 250 word proposal that
includes a description of the book you intend to review and a brief
discussion of its significance to the field of museum and curatorial
studies.

East Asian Journal of Popular Culture

We
are delighted to announce the development of the new
Intellect East
Asian Journal of Popular Culture and to issue
a general call for papers. In the last few decades there
has been a huge rise in the interest in East Asian popular
culture. The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture
will be engaging directly with that trend. From film
to music; art to translation and fashion to tourism,
this journal will offer a forum where multidisciplinary
work can come together in new and exciting ways.

The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture is the first academic peer-reviewed journal for scholars, teachers, and students from around the world who have an active and passionate interest in the popular culture of East Asia. The journal is devoted to all aspects of Popular Culture in East Asia. With the growth in popularity of Asian visual products in the Western world and the increasing strength of the Asian markets, this publication fulfils the need for an international journal that allows Western and Asian film, media, literary, music, fashion, digital media, television, art and cultural scholars alike to engage in discussion. The journal encourages articles that are both localised (towards a specific popular culture trend, figure or industry) as well as articles that are more global in their outlook (forging links between East Asian popular culture and wider global issues).

We welcome papers on any of these and related topics. If you would like to submit a paper or contact us about a proposed special edition please e-mail eajpopculture@gmail.com or one of the editors for further advice. This journal will also be offering in English reviews of Asian Language publications devoted to popular culture. This will bring Asian-based material via detailed summaries and reviews to an English Language readership. If you are interested in acting as a reviewer or are interested in proposing a book to be reviewed please contact the reviews editor.

e-Journal of East and Central Asian Religions

[from H-ASIA, 8/1/13]

It gives us great pleasure to announce the publication of the
e-Journal of East and Central Asian Religions (e-JECAR), edited by
Ian Astley and Henrik Sørensen, and hosted by the University of
Edinburgh, UK. The journal has an international editorial board and
submissions will be peer-reviewed. The first volume is scheduled for
release in September 2013.

e-JECAR is concerned with the development and interaction of the
religious cultures of East and Central Asia, whether historically or in
the present. In particular we seek to disseminate original research on
primary sources that span geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The
work to appear in e-JECAR is of three types: (i) extensive research
articles; (ii) essays from emerging scholars, to give (typically)
younger scholars the opportunity to present recently completed work
(e.g. a doctoral thesis) or to describe new work that they may be
embarking on (such as a post-doctoral project or a new database); and
(iii) review articles that engage with issues raised by recently
published research (please note that we do not publish short, mainly
descriptive book reviews).

e-JECAR is published in electronic form only and is offered to the
academic community and the general public in the spirit of open
scholarship and open-source technology. Authors are encouraged to
exploit the opportunities offered by new technology, e.g. in including
graphic materials and audio-visual sources that inform their work.

The journal will thus initially have three sections:

1.
Articles
We invite substantial studies of topics covered by the
journal's remit. Submissions which range across the
borders of the countries of East and Central Asia (both
historically and in the present) and those which avail
themselves of multi-media technology in an innovative
manner, are particularly welcome. The first volume will
include studies by Friederike Assandri, Stephan-Peter
Bumbacher, Carmen Meinert, Licia Di Giacinto, and Henrik
H. Sørensen.

2.
Emerging Scholars
The purpose of this section is to provide a forum for
emerging scholars to present their work (typically but
not necessarily work from a recent doctoral thesis)
in a manner which is more formal and permanent than
short reviews or postings to e-mail distribution lists.
It is expected that contributors to this section will
have completed their PhD or be in the final stages of
completing their doctoral thesis or dissertation. Items
will normally be in the region of 3,000 to 5,000 words.

3.
Review Articles
Review articles are extended essays which address an
issue that features in more than one major study. Whilst
submissions may focus on one work, it is expected that
authors will write with reference to other relevant
studies in the field. We do not envisage publishing
brief synopses that address critical issues incidentally.
The normal length for items in this section is also
3,000 to 5,000 words.

We have elected to distribute the studies in this journal freely to
the scholarly community, under the terms of the Creative Commons
licence and in line with the policies of major funding bodies in the
UK. Thanks are due to the University of Edinburgh, which is providing
the hosting service and technical assistance for setting up and
maintaining the site.

Transnational Subjects: History, Society and Culture

[from H-ASIA, 9/26/13]

Transnational Subjects: History, Society and Culture is a journal for cultural and transnational history post-1500. The journal is print and online, and fully peer-reviewed. We invite essays on all aspects of transnational and cultural history
(4,000-7,000 words) and shorter report-type articles (less than 3,000
words) demonstrating transnational history work. We also particularly welcome digital submissions, including audio/visual
work that would not be suitable for a traditional journal. Digital
content will also be peer-reviewed and published on our website. Send
proposals to transnational@gylphi.co.uk.

Smarthistory

Khan Academy's mission is a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. In September 2013, the academy had ten million unique visitors overall. For the art-history content alone, Khan anticipates more than two million visitors from around the globe for the fall 2013 semester. Let's make sure strong, global art-history content is well represented.

If you are interested in contributing your expertise in the form of short introductory essays to help make art history accessible to a global audience, Smarthistory could really use your help. The website's founders, Steven Zucker and Beth Harris, seek art historians, archaeologists, and conservators in many areas of study; they have a particular need for specialists in African, Asian, precolonial American, and Pacific art.

Smarthistory has created an interactive list of topics, a Trello Board, with an eye toward supporting introductory art-history courses. If something important is missing, please let Zucker and Harris know! Once you've decided on a topic, send an email to Zucker and Harris (along with your CV). If everything is in order, you will be added to the Trello Board, so you can claim that topic.

As a general rule, Smarthistory looks for the narratives a great professor tells his or her class to make students fall in love with a particular subject or work of art.

All accepted contributed content is published on both khanacademy.org and smarthistory.khanacademy.org. All content is published with a Creative Commons attribution and noncommercial license. You remain the owner of your content, and your contribution is always attributed.

Published by MIT Press, ARTMargins publishes scholarly articles and essays about contemporary art, politics, media, architecture, and critical theory. ARTMargins studies art practices and visual culture in the emerging global margins, including Asia. The journal seeks a forum for scholars, theoreticians, and critics from a variety of disciplines who are interested in postmodernism and post-colonialism, and their critiques; art and politics in transitional countries and regions; post-socialism and neo-liberalism; and the problem of global art and global art history and its methodologies, among other things.

Print Quarterly

Print Quarterly is the leading peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the art of the print from its origins to the present. The journal, which publishes recent scholarship on a wide range of topics encompassing printmakers, iconography and social and cultural history, would like to encourage original contributions from scholars working on Asian topics.